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David Isaac

David Isaac

Explore Senior Israel Correspondent David Isaac’s expert analysis on Jewish history, politics, and current events at JNS.

While experts differ sharply on the Israeli government’s reform plan, all agree that extreme discourse is clouding the issue.
“Red lines have been crossed in recent days by extremist elements that have one goal: To intentionally bring about anarchy,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Zivit Nahum, whose experiences led her to flee from her home in Ariel, collected the stories of 120 women and girls who had been harassed on buses in Samaria.
The roaring debate in Israel over Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s reforms has nothing to do with economics, the balance of powers or democracy, says Kohelet Policy Forum researcher.
One hundred and six lawmakers have already expressed support for the bill, says Maurice Hirsch of Palestinian Media Watch.
The NIF is incorporated as a foreign company in Israel and therefore its Israeli donors aren’t entitled to tax benefits.
“The community will not wait a decade until all is forgotten. All of this was an antisemitic fabrication and we demand an international investigation,” said community president Gabriel Senderowicz.
The gaggle of radical sponsors at the first anti-judicial reform rally vanished from the second.
The government’s legal reform package calls for making ministry legal advisers’ opinions non-binding, putting an end to what it calls the “subjugation of the government to an unelected rank.”
Rabbi Nosson Rodin of the Braude College of Engineering in the Galilee wants students from the periphery to have the skills for startup success.
Just two weeks into its tenure, Israel’s new government has already implemented a raft of retaliatory measures against the Palestinian leadership.
Work has become more mainstream, says Prof. Avi Weiss of the Taub Center.